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Run results for: innerhtml vs removechild vs remove vs innerText vs textContent

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_7_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.1.2 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
Mobile Safari 14
iOS 14.7.1
Mobile
3 years ago
Test name Executions per second
innerHTML 2849509.8 Ops/sec
removeChild 9565142.0 Ops/sec
remove 8523411.0 Ops/sec
innerText 8958683.0 Ops/sec
textContent 7972751.5 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
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<div id="container"></div>
Script Preparation code:
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var node = document.getElementById('container');
​
for(var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) node.appendChild(document.createElement('div'));
Tests:

  • innerHTML

     
    var node = document.getElementById('container');
    node.innerHTML = '';

  • removeChild

     
    var node = document.getElementById('container');
    while(node.firstChild) node.removeChild(node.firstChild)

  • remove

     
    var node = document.getElementById('container');
    while(node.firstChild) node.firstChild.remove()

  • innerText

     
    var node = document.getElementById('container');
    node.innerText = '';

  • textContent

     
    var node = document.getElementById('container');
    node.textContent = '';